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Post by ironhold on May 16, 2015 5:38:33 GMT
This one is from the 2015 film "Hot Pursuit", and stands as an "update" of the CSI stun gun myth.
In the film, the substance on the shirt to be ignited is heavily implied to be alcohol instead of pepper spray.
The story is that a cop pulled a stun gun on a drunken college student who yelled "shotgun!" while on his way to the parking lot. The stun gun ignited the student's shirt, leaving him seriously injured (his fate is never made known, but he presumably survives).
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Post by Cybermortis on May 16, 2015 19:18:05 GMT
When they tested the stun-gun myth they experimented with different types of pepper sprays, as they don't all use the same solvent. The ones that caught fire tended to be the oil-based sprays. I *think* that the alcohol based sprays failed to ignite.
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Post by the light works on May 16, 2015 23:23:01 GMT
I can see a fairly simple test rig. you will want a spark plug driven with a neon transformer, an atomizer type sprayer and swatches of cotton cloth.
dip the cloth in the beverage drape it on the spark plug, and then assuming it doesn't ignite, give it a shot with the atomizer. that way you test wet cloth, so you can get direct burn or wicking burn; and then you can see if airborne droplets can ignite.
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